2.5.3 Other Updating Commands

In addition to the five major updating commands, Texinfo mode
possesses several less frequently used updating commands:

M-x texinfo-insert-node-lines

Insert @node lines before the @chapter,
@section, and other sectioning commands wherever they are
missing throughout a region in a Texinfo file.

With an argument (C-u as prefix argument, if interactive), the
command texinfo-insert-node-lines not only inserts
@node lines but also inserts the chapter or section titles as
the names of the corresponding nodes. In addition, it inserts the
titles as node names in pre-existing @node lines that lack
names. Since node names should be more concise than section or
chapter titles, you must manually edit node names so inserted.

For example, the following marks a whole buffer as a region and inserts
@node lines and titles throughout:

C-x h C-u M-x texinfo-insert-node-lines

This command inserts titles as node names in @node lines; the
texinfo-start-menu-description command (see Inserting Frequently Used Commands) inserts titles as descriptions in
menu entries, a different action. However, in both cases, you need to
edit the inserted text.

M-x texinfo-multiple-files-update

Update nodes and menus in a document built from several separate files.
With C-u as a prefix argument, create and insert a master menu in
the outer file. With a numeric prefix argument, such as C-u 2, first
update all the menus and all the ‘Next’, ‘Previous’, and ‘Up’ pointers
of all the included files before creating and inserting a master menu in
the outer file. The texinfo-multiple-files-update command is
described in the appendix on @include files.
See texinfo-multiple-files-update.

M-x texinfo-indent-menu-description

Indent every description in the menu following point to the specified
column. You can use this command to give yourself more space for
descriptions. With an argument (C-u as prefix argument, if
interactive), the texinfo-indent-menu-description command indents
every description in every menu in the region. However, this command
does not indent the second and subsequent lines of a multi-line
description.

M-x texinfo-sequential-node-update

Insert the names of the nodes immediately following and preceding the
current node as the ‘Next’ or ‘Previous’ pointers regardless of those
nodes’ hierarchical level. This means that the ‘Next’ node of a
subsection may well be the next chapter. Sequentially ordered nodes are
useful for novels and other documents that you read through
sequentially. (However, in Info, the g * command lets
you look through the file sequentially, so sequentially ordered nodes
are not strictly necessary.) With an argument (prefix argument, if
interactive), the texinfo-sequential-node-update command
sequentially updates all the nodes in the region.